Ah, Valentine's Day. For some, the holiday is the perfect time for showering their beloved with gifts, chocolate, and lots of love and attention. For others, Valentine's Day is the most annoying of "Hallmark holidays" and a bitter reminder about bad relationships, being unhappily single, or about loving a partner who maybe, possibly just kind of sucks in the gift-giving department.
Whether we're in love or annoyed this year, it's still always fun to check out what celebrities are doing to celebrate love. Some of them choose to keep their romantic lives and celebrations on the downlow, but for other celebrities, Valentine's Day is the perfect way to use social media to declare their everlasting (at least by Hollywood standards) love for their partner. And let's be honest, for some to also flaunt their over-the-top gifts or ultra-romantic getaways.
From simple to sexy, we've rounded up 15 of the sweetest ways celebrities celebrated Valentine's Day. Who knows, maybe this roundup can serve as some Valentine's Day inspiration for those partners who rode the struggle bus this year. Send this story to the partner who needs the most help and feel free to point out that it costs almost no money to pull off a sweet sentiment like Britney did for her love, Sam.
Kourtney Kardashian
Kourtney Kardashian is all kinds of loved-up this Valentine's Day. Not only did she post pictures of the epic flower display that fiancé Travis Barker gave her, but she also devoted multiple Instagram pics to all things hearts, flowers, and red lingerie to highlight her love for the Blink-182 drummer. She also posted some sweet tributes to both her children and Travis' kids too. She's feeling all the love!
Chrissy Teigen
We all know about Valentine's Day, but we love that Chrissy Teigen was also keen to celebrate Galentine's Day, too. It's an unoffical holiday designed to honor the female friendships in our lives, and it looks like Chrissy celebrated it with her cutie-pie daughter Luna and a host of important women in her life. Love that!
Britney Spears
Celebs can afford the fanciest gifts, but as Britney Spears showed this year, nothing beats a homemade dessert. Britney proudly posted this picture of the homemade Valentine's cake she made, and we're seriously impressed with her baking and decorating skills. If that tastes as good as it looks, her fiancé, Sam Asghari, is a lucky guy.
Travis Barker
The other half of Hollywood's most PDA-prone couple is Travis Barker, and we all know he was going to go big for his fiancée, Kourtney Kardashian. This year's Valentine's Day lovefest included a massive amount of red roses and giant Mickey and Minnie figures for the Disney-obsessed Kourtney. Ah, love that's not on a tight budget is pretty epic!
Catherine Zeta-Jones
The Taj Mahal is one of the world's most iconic testaments to true love. It also makes the perfect backdrop for Catherine Zeta-Jones' cute Valentine's message to husband Michael Douglas. She captioned this photo, "Happy Valentine's Day to my honey! Love you," keeping it short and sweet.
Ben Affleck
If someone is dating a triple threat like Jennifer Lopez, it makes sense that the sweetest way to share Valentine's Day sentiments is to edit one of her music videos to include footage from literally years of loving her. Or at least that made sense to Ben Affleck, and it seemed to work for J.Lo, who said, "This seriously melted my heart."
Cardi B & Offset
Cardi B and Offset started their Valentine's Day celebrations by going to the Super Bowl on Sunday, which would be a pretty fun date night for any couple. But when they returned home, Cardi discovered the whole house and backyard were filled with flowers and that Offset had purchased multiple Chanel bags for her. Not only was she feeling the love, but she could also be heard on her Instagram stories promising Offset a very NSFW thank you gift in response!
Megan Fox
We're not sure if Megan Fox's Valentine's Day message to fiancé Machine Gun Kelly counts as sweet, exactly, but the sentiment definitely matches their slightly dark and sexy couple vibe. She asked the simple question, "I thought you couldn't make a ho into a housewife?" which is a question poets have been trying to answer for centuries really.
Cindy Crawford
Forever supermodel Cindy Crawford kept it sweet, simple, and playful with her Valentine's Day message. She combined a great pair of legs with a flirty robe and heart-shaped sunglasses to create a loving message that read, "Happy ❤️ day! ", presumably directed at her husband of more than 20 years, Rande Gerber!
John Legend
What is the point of being married to someone with a voice as sultry as John Legend's if it doesn't result in a Valentine's Day serenade? John and wife Chrissy Teigen celebrated Valentine's Day with a sweet duet video on Instagram that warmed our hearts (and also made us wonder where she got those adorable pajamas).
Kylie Jenner
Kylie Jenner's Valentine's Day celebration was very sweet — literally. Although she also appeared to have the standard Kardashian/Jenner holiday gift of a truly ridiculous amount of flowers (seriously, all of the sisters are so obsessed with getting tens of thousands of dollars of flowers — apparently nobody in the Kardashian world has allergies?), she posted this sweet gingerbread house tribute to her newly expanded little family. The tiny gingerbread baby version of son Wolf is adorable!
Gabrielle Union
Yes, we could have chosen to share any of the several loving mentions of her husband, Dwyane Wade, that Gabrielle Union posted on Valentine's Day, but we couldn't resist highlighting her V-day mention of daughter Kaavia James, who looks like a little ray of spring sunshine in this poolside picture. Gabrielle captioned it, "My Lil Valentine. My ❤️❤️❤️❤️ ." Awww!
Robin Arzon
Leave it to Peloton's Robin Arzon to hit us with an inspirational Valentine's Day message (that also included a sweet shout-out to her husband, Drew Butler). The fitness guru dropped some truth on a holiday that can leave some feeling a little lonely and unloved. "Be your own valentine, baby! Self-love is the most important type of love. It's the foundation for our power and a critical nexus in creating the relationships we want — romantic or not," she wrote.
"Y'all might have noticed the diamond tattoo on my hand. I got it at a time in my life when I was doing a lot of inner work and thinking about what I wanted my future to look like. The self-love that I discovered during this time started with the process of marrying myself first. It was a beautiful foundation for when I met @iamdrewbutler. Valentine's Day is also a day to show yourself some extra love. Let's normalize that. Relationships are a beautiful part of life, but your happiness does not equate to being tethered to another human. Self-love is a lifelong journey."
Mic drop moment!
Viola Davis
Viola Davis paid tribute to the power of long-term love in her Valentine's Day message to husband Julius Tennon. She shared this cute photo with the caption, "Twenty-two years of commitment, hope, love, a beautiful daughter, beautiful grandkids, and friendship. Happy Valentine's Day!! Love you, Julius!!!"
Barack Obama
Former President Barack Obama has never been shy about sharing his love for wife Michelle (who can blame him?), and Valentine's Day is no exception. As he put it in his touching message to her, "Happy Valentine's Day, Michelle! With a smile that lights up the world, you're truly one-of-a-kind. Today and always, I am thankful to have you in my life." We love to see a presidential couple who really loves each other!
